State's delegation on VAWA

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday, by a bipartisan 78-22 vote, passed a renewal of the federal Violence Against Women, and sent it to the House where Republican leaders have refused to allow a floor vote on the Senate’s legislation.

A group of 17 Republican House members, including Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash, sent a letter to leaders urging that they stop the stall. Washington’s three other GOP House members — Reps. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers and Jaime Herrera Beutler, and Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash. — did not sign the letter.

McMorris-Rodgers is a high-ranking member of the House Republican leadership.

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Such conservative lobbies as FreedomWorks have, however, come out against the legislation, claiming it is unfair to men. They have objected to provisions that would allow non-Indian perpetrators of domestic violence on reservations to be tried in tribal courts.